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By Sikander Hayat  Fawad Alam played a masterful innings in the first innings of the first Test match against South Africa in Karachi . He scored 109 runs, played 245 balls and stayed on the wicket for 353 minutes in a mammoth effort to bring Pakistan back into the Test match at Karachi cricket stadium . There were no fans in the stadium to enjoy this innings live but Fawad Alam proved yet again that his exclusion from Pakistan Cricket Team for last ten years was a big mistake and that Pakistan wasted a major talent by pursuing wrong selection policies. Fawad Alam is now 35 years old and can only serve Pakistan like Misbah for another few years if he stays fit and keeps scoring but he has been successful in at least doing one thing and that is to prove that he is an international level talent who should never have been dropped from Pakistan after one series in which he scored a big hundred against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka.  Fawad Alam was ably support by Muhammad Rizwan and...

By Sikander Hayat No, he should not retire because Pakistan needs him to perform and until such time when he stops performing or Pakistan starts losing,  Misbah  should captain Pakistan. He is the greatest cricket captain in terms of his own performance and the impact he has on the team in terms of leadership.   Misbah  has given Pakistan stability when team was in the midst of multiple crises and needed a calm hand to steer it away from the abyss. In  Misbah ’s case, age has proved to be just a number and is a template for what an ideal Pakistan captain should look & behave like. People will understand what they have lost only when he will leave the stage and they will miss his  touch. People like Imran Khan were able to succeed in an atmosphere where they were surrounded by great players like Javed Miandad, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Salim Malik, Abdul Qadir e.t.c but  Misbah ’s team was full of half-baked players like Akmal ...

Lazaro Ramos and Camila Pitanga are two well-known and well-loved Brazilian stars - they played the leading couple in the soap Lado a Lado (Side By Side). And they were expected to play a key role in the World Cup group stage draw on 6 December, in the state of Bahia - the historic heart of African-Brazilian culture. When news emerged that the draw would instead be led by the blond, white couple , Fernanda Lima and Rodrigo Hilbert, there was outrage on blogs, forums and social media  in Brazil. "Fifa, we want Lazaro Ramos and Camila Pitanga, ok? They are our face, our people, and we love them!" was  one tweet . "As if we weren't already self-sufficient when it comes to racism, Fifa comes over to lend us a hand," was  another . US film director Spike Lee even  chimed in  with criticism of Fifa's power over the game. Many demanded an explanation - and in the absence of one, were quick to come to their own conclusions. Read the full story here.  ...

Misbah-ul-Haq  has hailed Pakistan's maiden ODI series win against South Africa as a "really big achievement". Pakistan also became the first subcontinent team to win a series in South Africa when they edged the hosts  by one run  in Port Elizabeth to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead with one game remaining. "It is a really, really big achievement for us, especially for this young team," Misbah said. "They are going to start believing that they can perform well. I think that is what we were lacking in Abu Dhabi and Dubai and lost few games which we should have won. It is a good comeback for the confidence of the team. In the future we can come with better confidence, and winning a first bilateral one-day series in South Africa means something to us." Misbah praised  Saeed Ajmal  and  Junaid Khan  for bringing Pakistan back after  AB de Villiers  and  Hashim Amla  had taken South Africa to a winning position. The hosts needed 36...

Captain Morgan wins thriller for England Six-hitting from Eoin Morgan and Jos Buttler carried England to victory at the death © BCCI Enlarge They don't come as smooth as Captain Morgan. As MS Dhoni and his senior associates debated the field for the final delivery of the chase, off which England needed three to win, Eoin Morgan was calm, had a word with his partner and then waited. Jos Buttler had tried to be cheeky and didn't succeed the previous ball, but Morgan put an end to the game in the only way an expectant crowd sensing victory could have been silenced in disbelief - a deathly blow over the sightscreen when there seemed to be enough room in the field to squeeze a couple and take the game to a Super Over. With a Test series won and a T20 series drawn, England rounded off their first leg of this tour of India on a happy note. The victory was also their highest successful chase in T...

Over the last 18 years, the Yankees were 1731-1163 with five World Series wins and 12 other postseason appearances. But that era of dominance ended in Detroit. (AP) If you are of a certain age, maybe 35 or older, you almost certainly have a powerful memory of Mike Tyson fumbling for his mouthpiece at the end of his fight with Buster Douglas . It remains -- and always will, I suspect -- one of the most compelling things I have ever seen in sports. The reason it was so compelling, I think, is because it was so FINAL. There was no going back after that moment. The past had been broken. The future was uncertain. Mike Tyson was the baddest man in the world before that fight. He wore no robe, he wore black, he unloaded lethal blows at unreasonable speeds. He was so terrifying that boxing champions and former champions and men nicknamed "Bonecrusher" entered the ring trembling. And then, he fought a journeyman named Buster who, for various fascinating ...

  Serbia's football team is only six years old, but the on-pitch scuffles and alleged racist chanting at its Under-21 home defeat to England on Tuesday is only its latest embarrassment. In that short period it has attracted an unenviable collection of negative headlines. At the European Under-21 Championship in 2007, officials from the regional governing body Uefa had to address Serbian fans during their team's match against England. They appealed for a halt to racist chants which appeared to be aimed at England defender Nedum Onuoha. Two years ago the senior team's European Championship qualifying match in Italy came to a chaotic end after just seven minutes. Serbian fans had been throwing flares both into the stands and on to the pitch and, fearful for the safety of the players, the referee abandoned the match. Certain fan groups had organised the disruption as a protest against Serbia's goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic. The fo...

By Sikander Hayat Verinder Sehwag is playing a gem of an innings against West Indies in Indore. He has been a great servant of Indian cricket over the years and have made many fans throughout the world with his masterful batting. He has made triple hundreds before in test cricket but he is the second man to score a double hundred in limited overs cricket after Sachin Tendulkar. He has played in todays match like someone who is in complete command and has ample time for his shots.Darren Sami, the West Indies captain has no options left to stop Verinder Sehwag as he has used all his bowlers both full time and part time. This is how wikipedia describes Sehwag " Virender Sehwag  (born 20 October 1978), affectionately known as   Viru , the   Nawab of Najafgarh , or the Zen master of modern cricket ,   is one of the leading   batsmen   in the   Indian cricket team . Sehwag is an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and a part-time ri...

Karim Benzema has scored the opening goal for France against England tonight in the 16 th minute of the match giving france an unlikely lead in the match played at Wembley. He   is a French   football   player of Algerian heritage who currently plays as a   striker   for the La Liga   club   Real Madrid   and internationally represents the   French national football team . Benzema grew up with nine   siblings   and his father Hafid in the district of   Bron . His grandfather, Da Lakehal Benzema, lived in the village of Tighzert, located in the northern town of   Beni Djellil   in   Algeria   before migrating to Lyon, where he eventually settled in the 1950s. In 2006, the Algerian F.A. asked Benzema if he would play for Algeria, qualifying through his parents. Benzema, politely rejected the offer stating that he would prefer to play for French national team. Real Madrid   stars  Lassana...

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